LD Ed Warren called on a range of GLP products for Idles’ latest UK tour. The itinerary included a number of O2 Academy-sized venues, including multiple nights at the larger capacity Brixton Academy, Victoria Warehouse Manchester, and Cardiff Motorpoint Arena. There, the basic house rig/floor package expanded with a full production show including 20 GLP JDC Line 500, 28 X4 Bar 20s, and 18 JDC1 hybrid strobes on the floor.
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Following two years of postponement due to the worldwide pandemic, Europe’s largest exhibition for the professional lighting and audio industry is set to return this month to Frankfurt, Germany. The ADJ team is looking forward to reunite with customers and industry colleagues at the show, as well as use it to introduce a host of brand new products. On display for the very first time will be two new moving head luminaires, alongside a range of new LED-powered wash fixtures.Read More »ADJ Prepares To Unveil Host of New Lighting Products in Frankfurt
Ayrton’s new Zonda 9 Wash and Zonda 9 FX are the first luminaires in a new family of products devised for stage lighting. Equipped with a high-performance 40W LED source with RGB+W additive color synthesis, these new products fit into Ayrton’s Multi Sources 9 Series category. Follow the link to see a video preview.
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Three years after the previous edition of Prolight + Sound in 2019, the international trade fair is returning to Frankfurt am Main. Adam Hall Group… Read More »Adam Hall Group at Prolight + Sound 2022: #Restart with New Product Highlights
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Final Pixel, a creative studio that has worked with Discovery, Disney/ABC, and Shutterstock, among others, recently ran several test shoots using Brompton’s new Frame Remapping technology. The results exceeded Final Pixel’s already-high expectations.
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Ghost from Sweden and Volbeat from Denmark co-headlined a U.S. tour lit, respectively, by LDs Erich Bertti and Niels Bjerregaard. Premier Global Productions provided a rig centered on Robe moving lights including MegaPointes, Spiiders, and BMFL Spots.
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The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas has invested in Vari-Lite and Strand luminaires from Signify in five of its main spaces to transform their lighting and reduce power consumption. The $360 million multi-venue Center upgraded its fixtures with more than 200 Vari-Lite and Strand products.Read More »Dallas’ AT&T Performing Arts Center Upgrades all Main Venues to Vari-Lite and Strand
The eight-time Grammy Award-winner and R&B superstar Usher Raymond IV recently headlined a Las Vegas residency, delivering his fans an extraordinary immersive performance and “an Usher experience like they’ve never seen or heard before”. Opened at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on July 16, 2021, Usher delivered 12 shows in total – eight in July, three in December, and a final event on January 1, 2022. BrainHub and LMG Touring & Entertainment, both part of Entertainment Technology Partners (ETP), worked closely together and with the production team, including Production Designer, Paul Tate DePoo III and Video Design firm FragmentNine’s Jackson Gallagher, to design a larger-than-life experience featuring more than 500 moving lights, creative LED, and video solutions. [PLSN covered the Usher Residency in the November, 2021 issue. You can read that story here.]Read More »Brompton Technology Helps Deliver Usher’s Supreme Las Vegas Residency Experience
tvONE and Green Hippo are launching a competition to highlight excellence in control system design using their range of products. tvONE is looking for programmers, operators and designers who have mastered video manipulation using Green Hippo’s Hippotizer range of Media Servers, or harnessed the power of tvONE’s CORIOmaster family of video processors.Read More »Green Hippo and tvONE Launch the CONECT Control Competition
Here is a video interview with Lighting Designer, Sooner Routhier from the Light Collective’s Women in Entertainment Lighting section, which is sponsored by Ayrton:
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Christie Lites, global provider of stage lighting services and technical expertise, has welcomed Chris Patton as its VP Rentals. Patton’s new role comes as part of a wider expansion of the Christie Lites management team, bringing increased focus to both client and rep support. To that end Patton will join Ken Alexander, Senior VP Rentals, to lead, develop, and support the Christie Lites Rental Rep Team.Read More »Chris Patton joins Christie Lites as VP of Rentals
“In early 2000, I moved to LA, and all I wanted to do was tour. I loved music and touring; big shows, bright lights and really dynamic stuff. But hanging out with [Allen] Branton, I began to appreciate the art of paying attention to those really, really micro details and making them right. The whole television lighting experience, that I thought would be limiting, was in fact the opposite.”
—David Hunkins, interviewed by Michael S. Eddy, for his column, 1,000 Words with… PLSN, April 2022, page 47